Review by Booklist Review
With simple, informative sentences paired with beautifully detailed watercolor paintings, this title in the About Habitat series will introduce young grade-schoolers to grassland ecology across the world: the climate, the plants that grow there, and the wildlife that have adapted to survive in the large open spaces, including American bison on the short-grass prairie; wildflowers in the tallgrass prairie; giraffes, white rhinoceroses, and impalas roaming on the African savanna; and the maned wolf on the South American pampas. Readers will also enjoy turning to the spacious final notes, which offer more facts, as well as a bibliography. Great for classroom sharing.--Rochman, Haze. Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Horn Book Review
In each spread, one simple sentence of text faces a full-page, detailed painting of a type of grassland, from savannah to steppe, including appropriate animals or plants. The illustrations, numbered and labeled, correspond to fact-filled paragraphs in the afterword with more information about distribution, habitat, and food. The labeling could be better, but overall it's a useful offering. Websites. Bib., glos. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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